Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2022
Publication Title
Journal of Mormon History
Abstract
Within the halls of academia, denominational history is a thoroughly unfashionable genre about an oft-ignored subject. This was not always so. Historian Lincoln Mullen notes that the field of religious history “used to be dominated by denominational histories, more often than not written by scholars from those denominations.” Such histories might make “a genuine contribution to the field, but most bordered on antiquarianism.” By the 1980s, most historians had turned “their attention to the discussions of race, class, gender, and power that animate the historical professions more generally.”1 Denominational histories, at least in this telling, were left behind due to a shift in what constituted an important historical story and a new focus upon the production of power through crosscutting categories of difference.
Volume
48
Issue
3
First Page
1
Last Page
14
DOI
10.5406/24736031.48.3.01
Recommended Citation
Howlett, David, "The RLDS Church, Global Denominations, and Globalization: Why the Study of Denominations Still Matters" (2022). Religion: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/rel_facpubs/42
Comments
Archived as published.